PHOTO ANALYSIS: What do you see? Everyone will receive a post-it note. Next, a photo will be displayed on the screen. Once the photo is displayed, take sixty seconds to simply observe. What do you see? What is happening in this picture? After the sixty seconds has expired, each student will find one thing about this picture that really stands out among the rest. That one thing will be written on the post-it note and one by one, students will make their way to the board and label their item.

THE BLACK DEATH

A plague, carried by fleas, that swept Europe and Asia from Because of this plague, Europe alone lost one third of its entire population. By the end of its terror, the traditional feudal and manorial land systems as well as the entire continent of Europe, had completely crumbled.

THE BLACK DEATH "The symptoms were not the same as in the East, where a gush of blood from the nose was the plain sign of inevitable death; but it began both in men and women with certain swellings in the groin or under the armpit. They grew to the size of a small apple or an egg, more or less, and were vulgarly called tumors. In a short space of time these tumors spread from the two parts named all over the body. Soon after this the symptoms changed and black or purple spots appeared on the arms or thighs or any other part of the body, sometimes a few large ones, sometimes many little ones. These spots were a certain sign of death, just as the original tumor had been and still remained.”

ADDITIONAL SYMPTOMS Fever Mental Disorientation Delirium Vomiting Muscular Pains Bleeding of the Lungs Exhaustion *Most of those that fell victim to the Black Death lived only 2-3 more days after the contracting symptoms

TREATMENTS Vinegar & Water Lancing Bloodletting Aromatic Herbs Diet Sanitation Seclusion & Quarantine Removal of Heretics Flagellation & Prayer

THE BLACK DEATH "One citizen avoided another, hardly any neighbor troubled about others, relatives never or hardly ever visited each other. Moreover, such terror was struck into the hearts of men and women by this calamity, that brother abandoned brother, and the uncle his nephew, and the sister her brother, and very often the wife her husband. What is even worse and nearly incredible is that fathers and mothers refused to see and tend their children, as if they had not been theirs.”

EFFECTS ON EUROPE Decrease in Population Slowed Economy Destruction of Feudal & Manorial Systems Loss of Church’s Prestige

SO WHAT?! Why does the Black Death matter?

SO WHAT?! contract the disease each year in the US Combated by advancements in modern science and advanced hygiene systems No major epidemic in Europe since 1700s New medical mysteries: Ebola – 1976, Africa – No medical cure – Could spread rapidly due to mass travel – Could the experience of the Black Death help?

“Ring Around the Rosy” A beloved nursery rhyme...

…or a tale of unexplainable death? The Dance by Michael Wolgemut

“Ring around the Rosy” indicates the rose colored ring around the plague sore on victims’ bodies

“Pocket full of posies” refers to the sweet-smelling flowers that those tending the sick would carry to ward off the stench of the disease

“Ashes, Ashes” sounds like “a-choo, a-choo” the sneezing and coughing that signaled sickness from the pneumonic plague

“We all fall down” death